Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Jim, thanks a lot, and I'm really happy to see you got some parts for your rod. You've got to do a thread on the build.

Brad, thanks to you too for the nice words. I am pretty proud of the kind of work Dan does. He is a pain sometimes with this perfectionism, but I have to admit it is paying off for him. Everytime I look at his '29 I find some detail that is really special.

Get going on that barn addition, we need more rods being put together on here.


Yesterday Tom (Supa Roosta) suggested a method of using foam to create a transmission tunnel, and Ken Thurm seconded it, saying he had done this too. I have only one thing to say to the both of them.............THANKS GUYS, I OWE YOU A BEER.........NO, MAKE THAT TWO BEERS.

I used this system today to build the mold for my transmission tunnel, and it is really slick. I bought a couple of bags of 3/4 inch thick styrofoam insulation at Home Depot and also picked up the carpet tape Tom suggested. The guy who invented double sided carpet tape has a strange sense of humor. This stuff is murder to work with and cut. It was the worst part of the whole ordeal, but even that wasn't as bad as what I had planned to do in wood.

What I did was cut a whole bunch of half circles that matched the aluminum hoops I had made yesterday, and glued them into one big unit with pieces of the carpet tape between each one. It made a pretty solid unit that I was able to rough out with an electric carving knife and finish with some 40 grit then 80 grit sandpaper. This stuff shaped like putty, and was great to work with. It makes a real mess in the shop cutting it, but the shop vac took care of that.

I am not finished shaping it, and still have to finish it back into the driveshaft tunnel area, but the hardest part is done. A little more shaping and I can start laying mat and resin over the top of it.

Anyway, Tom and Ken, thanks for this tip. I owe you guys one.

Here are some pictures of where it ended up tonight. Those black marks you see are where I painted the ones where my aluminum strips were. I painted them so that I wouldn't grind down any further than that level, or I would have been too close to the tranny.

Don